Suspicious device left at Bridgeport restaurant

Published 7:45 pm, Sunday, September 13, 2009

BRIDGEPORT -- Police were investigating late Sunday a possible bomb left at a Chinese restaurant on Wood Avenue.

Bridgeport police confirmed that the State Police Bomb Squad had been called in to probe a suspicious device left on a table at the Fortune Cookie Chinese Kitchen, 306 Wood Ave., shortly after 11 p.m.

Police said the area was evacuated and the scene still unfolding at shortly after midnight Monday, as officers investigated and sought an unknown male suspect who had allegedly left the device, stated it was a bomb, and fled.